The black monastic
By: Theaster Gates
Contributors: Museu Serralves
Publisher: Serralves
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Porto, Portugal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9789727393299
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions; Interviews; Performance art; Art and music; Art et musique; Expositions
Description: Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates has developed a body of work that includes space development, object-making, performance, and critical engagement with many publics. Together with members of The Black Monks of Mississippi, a music ensemble, he used a two-week residency and so-called "monastic retreat" at the Serralves Foundation in Porto to further develop their collective practice. This book documents the actions and interactions which took place in both public and private spheres throughout the buildings and gardens, from playing instruments and shaping clay to posing or walking in line. With essays, an interview, and many photographs.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, September 7-19, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English and Portuguese.
Table of contents: title: Moldar o numdo : como prosseguir? = Shaping the world : how to continue? / Suzanne Cotter; title: Dezanove sessões = Nineteen moves / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart; title: Preferiria morrer em Chicago a viver em Brooklyn : sobre Theaster Gates e os Black Monks of Mississippi = I'd rather die in Chicago than live in Brooklyn : on Theaster Gates and the Black Monks of Mississippi / Our Literal Speed; title: Uma ordem no tornar-se : uma conversa entre Theaster Gates e os Black Monks of Mississippi = An order in becoming : Theaster Gates and the Black Monks of Mississippi in conversation.